A Clinical Follow-up Study of Heart Failure Patients.

Heart failure (HF), a current worldwide pandemic with an unacceptable high level of morbidity and mortality, brings an enormous medical and societal burden. Chronic HF is characterized by progressive alteration of cardiac structure and function. But the molecular mechanism of these alterations is still not well-established and needs to be discussed further. HF is a highly heterogeneous disease that can be caused by a multiple of diseases. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) are the main causes of this syndrome. Although HF is the common manifestation of DCM and ICM, the etiology and pathogenesis are different. Understanding the different pathophysiological mechanisms will contribute to the prevention and individualized therapy of heart failure. Therefore, this study aims to observation the different characteristics of the molecular biology and clinical courses in DCM and ICM patients.